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Old Aug 8, 2016 | 8:37 pm
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kaszeta
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Final stop on the way back to Vagar Airport: the National Museum, with some cool exhibits on the maritime traditions of the islands:



Whaling knives:



And odd collection of elaborate carved pew ends:



And a nice exhibit on traditional Faroese clothing (which we did see a few times, such as when there was the wedding in Klaksvik):



Oh, and those sheep everywhere? They aren't the sheep that had been "native" since the 600s. Those went extinct back in the 1800s, with the last 3 taxidermied and on display. The modern sheep are transplants from the Shetlands:

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